Canadian skin care company, Bare Love Beauty, attends the Oscars

Rebecca Cook of Bare Love Beauty at the Oscars gifting suite.

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, Bare Love Beauty

It’s Oscar weekend and the anticipation leading up to Sunday is palpable, even all the way up here in frigid Toronto. The guys at the entertainment desk beside me have their opinions on which movie will take ‘Best Picture’ (Zero Dark Thirty) and predictions for which lady will wear the best dress (Jennifer Lawrence or Jessica Chastain) are flying about. But the public-facing spectacle is just one part of Oscar fever.

You’ve probably heard of the gifting suites -- spaces where celebrities, agents and the media can graze on the newest and coolest fashion and beauty items to benefit their image, and concurrently the brands’ too. There has been much hoopla about celebrities receiving “freebies” but, arguably, the benefits really belong to the gifting companies. So fascinating is the glitz and glamour of the Oscar’s, that it’s an immense benefit to have your dress, shoe, ring, or makeup worn by a televised celebrity.

One tiny Canadian beauty brand has been granted the opportunity to gift her goods to Hollywood’s elite. Rebecca Cook, owner of Bare Love Beauty, has landed in LA for one day of celebrity gifting that could very well change the trajectory of her small skincare line forever.

Bare Love Beauty was born after Cook realized how she, despite working in the beauty industry and having access to every cream imaginable, always returned to her mom’s skincare secret - oils. As Rebecca explains, “European women are more advanced in their beauty regimes and have always used oils; I really wanted North America to embrace them too.”

She started working with a natural and organic chemist to devise a technology that could flatter the purity of oils. Following a year of experimentation the two ultimately developed OlioLove Technology, a process of microencapsulating oils, or bursting them into thousands of little spheres and whipping them into buttery creams.

When oils are reduced to such a tiny size, they penetrate the skin extra easily and allow cells to drink their nourishment. Rebecca regularly calls her creams “skin fuel” because the careful blend of oils - including coconut, Acai palm, passion flower, and many others - benefits complexions within hours, super quick when compared to the full week it regularly takes creams to have effect.

After her arrival in LA, Rebecca readied her team to prepare one-hundred gift bags for intrigued guests. She also made extra-special gifts baskets for A-listers like Kate Winslet who, should she attend, can expect a chat about healthy skin care. “I would talk to her about the natural, eco-chic aspect of the product but I would really focus on oil as a natural beauty process.”

As for what Rebecca’s wearing to greet the Californian royalty, she’s sticking to brand colours - a turquoise shift dress and some pretty pink jewelry.

Bare Love Beauty is available online at www.barelovebeauty.com or at specialty retailers across Canada. Check the website for more details.

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